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BOH1JS an immediate and critical task.
This task is to hold together for Warner the "grand coalition” which had been so skillfully assembled in support of the Obenshain candidacy.
That coalition was composed of regular Republicans of all philosophical hues, disaffected conservative Democrats and conservative independents. At the time of the tragic airplane crash which killed Obenshain earlier this month, it had appeared to be a well-nigh invincible campaign apparatus.
Keeping it intact is essential to Republican hopes of defeating Democrat Andrew P. Miller in the November election.
Yet the task of rallying this coalition to the support of a Warner candidacy poses a formidable array of complex problems.
The first of these has to do with the new candidate's basic political philosophy. For some reason, there is still a nagging doubt in the minds of some that he is a genuine conservative, or at least a conservative of sufficient dedication and commitment to merit the do-or-die devotion which characterized the Obenshain following.
Had To Pom Test
So profound is this doubt that the Obenshain staff and other key party conservatives felt it necessary to conduct a three-hour closed door interrogation of Warner last Tuesday night to test his ideological purity. This is in spite of the fact that the candidate had been on the stump for months prior to his narrow loss of the nomination to Obenshain at the state convention in June.
As the conclusion of the session, he received the conservatives' somewhat reserved blessing.
In a further attempt to allay the conservative fears, Gov. John Dalton held a news conference two days
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